Example sentences of "[verb] to our [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , I used to live , we used to live in a three bedroomed semi in before we moved to our present house , and one Christmas Ken said why do n't all our family to us , which was his mother , his father , his elder brother , his wife , two little girls from them , Tony , Karen and their little one |
| 2 | We are committed to our Strategic Intent of becoming the world 's foremost brewer , working with partners all over the world to continue providing quality products and an excellent service to an increasing number of customers . |
| 3 | For example , ‘ We should be involved in , and committed to our local church ’ . |
| 4 | We avoid this reality because none of us like it , and prefer to defer to our clinical impressions ! |
| 5 | Proposing and reasoning can appeal to our intellectual vanity . |
| 6 | Coleman , he wrote , a struggling surgeon ‘ condescended ’ ( why condescended ? ) ‘ to come to our only veterinary college and to teach that of which he had absolutely no knowledge or experience ’ . |
| 7 | I think perhaps we 'll ask them to come to our next meeting , or the meeting after that . |
| 8 | Unlike most tour operators , who are happy for you to go to any one of several countries , we are thoroughly biased — we want you to come to our OWN country . |
| 9 | What is happening to our famous chalk cliffs ? |
| 10 | The Authority responded to our interim statements on this matter and increased its INSET commitment to management issues and leadership roles ( including that of the head ) as PNP progressed . |
| 11 | Only a few groups responded to our earlier notice , and one or two sent an order directly to Lisson Grove ( at the highest price ) . |
| 12 | Essential Computer Mathematics , by Seymour Lipschutz ( in the Schaum 's Outline Series in Computers ) , was added to our first-year reading list in the autumn . |
| 13 | We were therefore very pleased to be notified of the RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety relating to our 1992 safety record , which will be awarded in May of this year . |
| 14 | replaced the catch-all provisions of the 1911 Official Secrets Act with narrower offences depending on specific tests of the harm likely to be caused by disclosure , while giving special protection to vital information relating to our national security ; |
| 15 | Returning to our simple example of male deafness , for n men aged 45–50 on a previous survey five years earlier and now , therefore , aged 50–55 , we might have numbers such as : |
| 16 | Returning to our main theme , the practical choice of pricing systems in increasing returns cases lies between deficit financing , Ramsey-optimal pricing , two-part tariffs , declining block tariffs , or some other non-uniform pricing scheme . |
| 17 | Returning to our canine theme , dogs still carry with them the same instincts possessed by their wild ancestors , still remaining members of that same species — the wild wolf — even after so many generations of breeding have made them what must be the most diverse species upon Earth . |
| 18 | Returning to our earlier theme , we notice there is a tradeoff for shareholders ' representatives in employing a manager . |
| 19 | Burger leaned forward quickly and , lowering his voice , said : ‘ Returning to our earlier subject , Garland half believed himself to be impotent he probably was , but he was obsessed by that damned girl he married and although she was good to look at , that was all — she was an immoral woman ! |
| 20 | But first , we 're returning to our top story . |
| 21 | We were numb ; we did n't want to speak for fear of returning to our banal selves again . |
| 22 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 23 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 24 | Dreaming does not seem to be confined to our own species : research on the subject would appear to indicate that animals likewise have dreams : we have all seen a sleeping dog twitch as it ‘ chases rabbits ’ . |
| 25 | Morally speaking , we have no doubt that it is ; but again reverting to our cynical sociological standpoint , we suspect that on the contrary it is often the dispelling of secrecy that causes problems for the system and exacerbates the crisis . |
| 26 | This can best be understood by reverting to our previous example concerning a furnished tenancy . |
| 27 | We could be economically prosperous , environmentally responsible and educated to our full potential . |
| 28 | The House might recall the Auld report , which referred to our 2.2 million shop workers as people who have been generally abused in terms of their long working hours and poor wages . |
| 29 | Back in the thirteenth century , Marco Polo described Bukhara as the finest city in all Persia and Tabriz as the most splendid city in the province ( of Iraq ) , neither of which corresponds to our contemporary understanding . |
| 30 | It corresponds to our classical intuition , and everyday experience , of how particles behave . |